From 1922 to 1970, the American vaudeville comedy team was active and known as The Three Stooges. Moe Howard and Larry Fine were principal members with the third and pivotal third stooge rotating through four players. Slapstick and physical farce were a hallmark style, and they performed for nearly 50 years! Larry, Moe, and Curly […] Read more

Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton got their starts with The Yardbirds, an English rock band formed in 1963. For five years the core artists and a series of guitar gods experimented with psychedelia, produced many hits, and helped define the music of the era. Jimmy Page was the lead guitarist in 1966 and soon after […] Read more

Shuffling about his laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, a shock of hair over one side of his forehead, sharp blue eyes sparkling, stains and chemical burns on his wrinkled clothing, Thomas Edison never looked like a man whose inventions had revolutionized the world in less than a lifetime. Certainly, he never acted like it. […] Read more

As the third president of the U.S., a philosopher, lawyer, diplomat, and architect, Thomas Jefferson is one of our most beloved Founding Fathers. He also served as the first United States secretary of state, and the country’s second vice president under John Adams. As one of the main authors of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson […] Read more

Tiger Woods is one of the most famous athletes of his time and an inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame. His career is a story of comebacks from injuries and personal problems, winning him the endearment of the world’s greatest golfer. He dropped to number 58 in 2011 then rose again to number […] Read more

Timothy McVeigh was a Gulf War veteran who tried to insight a revolution against the government. He wrote letters complaining about taxes and believed the government had implanted a chip in him. In 1993 he joined his former roommate Terry Nichols and they built an explosive device and mounted it in a truck. He drove […] Read more

Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas each rose above poverty and broken homes to become TLC, the best-selling American musical trio. They sold over 90 million records and earned four Grammy Awards, five Soul Train Music Awards, and five MTV Video Music Awards. Their number 4 Billboard 100 singles […] Read more

Tony Curtis, born Bernard Schwartz, was the Hollywood heartthrob of the 1950s and fathered a famous daughter Jamie Lee Curtis. He joined the Navy and was wounded in World War II in Guam, and then moved to Hollywood, California to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. His good looks and sparkling blue eyes gained […] Read more

Virginia Woolf began her writing career with a purpose: a self-conscious evolution of the novel. She pioneered stream of consciousness as a narrative device and was one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Home-schooled in Victorian literature and the English classics, she was part of an affluent family of eight, including Vanessa […] Read more